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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
adlect .
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Examples
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At this time it held a thousand men, who were either admitted through election as quaestors, or adlected by the censors, or by the Triumvirs.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Later, when they were adlected by the censors, they were considered as conscripted.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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At this time it held a thousand men, who were either admitted through election as quaestors, or adlected by the censors, or by the Triumvirs.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Later, when they were adlected by the censors, they were considered as conscripted.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The exile in the House of the Vestals must be a temporary thing; a Vestal was adlected at six or seven years of age, and had to maintain her virginity for the thirty years of her service, for her virginity represented Rome’s luck.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The exile in the House of the Vestals must be a temporary thing; a Vestal was adlected at six or seven years of age, and had to maintain her virginity for the thirty years of her service, for her virginity represented Rome’s luck.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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